Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 55
_ The account of each day’s hunting contains a number of obsolete terms and details of woodcraft, not given in full.
Who acts: account, day · What happens: contain, not give, account, hunt, detail · To what, where: number, woodcraft, full, hunting
This is a sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (account, day), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 contains | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 account | det |
| 3 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 contains | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 hunting | case |
| 5 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hunting | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 day | case |
| 8 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 account | nmod |
| 9 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 number | det |
| 11 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 contains | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 terms | case |
| 13 | obsolete | obsolete | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 terms | compound |
| 14 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 number | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 details | cc |
| 16 | details | detail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 terms | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 woodcraft | case |
| 18 | woodcraft | woodcraft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 details | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 given | punct |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 given | advmod |
| 21 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 woodcraft | acl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 full | case |
| 23 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 given | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 contains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | present | the account of each day's hunting | a number of obsolete terms and details of woodcraft | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot number=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not give | participle | woodcraft not said here | full | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | account | each day's hunting | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | hunt | each day | nom hunting «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | detail | woodcraft | nom detail «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Project Gutenberg book 66084 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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